Clung Quotes
72 Clung quotes by 69 unique authors
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Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in…
— David Wroblewski
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All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you…
— George Orwell
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
— Annie Barrows
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I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to…
— Gail Carson Levine
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The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy…
— Emily Bronte
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I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
— George MacDonald
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with…
— Bear Grylls
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A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon,…
— Stephen Crane
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom…
— Hermann Hesse
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I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some…
— Lisa Kleypas
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
— William Faulkner
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She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had let the walls…
— Cassandra Clare
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Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
— Shannon Hale
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Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city…
— Walt Whitman
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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
— Charles Portis
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Denise clung to the feel of his hands as she pushed at her panic. It's okay. You're safe...and this has got to be the ugliest…
— Jeaniene Frost
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It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
— Mary Balogh
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I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night…
— Isabel Allende
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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who Wrote These Clung Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 72 Clung Quotes, led by these top contributors: